Friday, February 22, 2008

Effective Concurrency ... so far

Following on from a previous post about The Pillars of Concurrency, here are links to the full set of Herb Sutters "Effective Concurrency" column topics (as of Feb 2008) ...

The Pillars of Concurrency
How Much Scalability Do You Have or Need?
Use Critical Sections (Preferably Locks) to Eliminate Races
Apply Critical Sections Consistently Avoid Calling Unknown Code While Inside a Critical Section
Use Lock Hierarchies to Avoid Deadlock
Break Amdahl's Law!
Going Superlinear

These are an excellent set of articles on the subject of concurrency and programming for multi-core that analyzes the many facets of the subject - from background theory, to locking and on to achieving scalability and performance.

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